I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour,... An index to familiar quotations selected principally from British authors ... - Page 210edited by - 1863Full view - About this book
| Georges Minois - History - 1989 - 376 pages
...image of old age rather than that of current practice: 'Respect and reason, wait on wrinkled age!';103 'And that which should accompany old age, / As honour,...obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have'.104 'Priam, why art thou old and yet not wise?' Lucrece asks.105 Indeed, if the old do possess... | |
| William Shakespeare - Historical drama, English - 1998 - 276 pages
...cheer me ever, or dis-seat me now. I have lived long enough: my way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf, And that which should accompany old...love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have—but in their stead Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath Which the poor heart would... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 132 pages
...Seyton, I say! - This push 20 5,3 95 I have lived long enough: my way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old...obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath Which the poor heart would fain... | |
| William Shakespeare, Hugh Black-Hawkins - Drama - 1992 - 68 pages
...chair me ever or dis-seat me now. I have lived long enough: my way of life Is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old...obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath taint : weaken epicures : gluttons... | |
| Clive Barker, Simon Trussler - Drama - 1992 - 100 pages
...on which even despair must rely: I have liv'd long enough: my way of life Is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old...obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 268 pages
...would like this because they were his sentiments. ) Will cheer me ever, or disseat me now. I have lived long enough. My way of life Is fallen into the sear,...obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but in their stead Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath Which the poor heart would fain... | |
| Suzanne Stern-Gillet - Philosophy - 1995 - 248 pages
...have been written to illustrate Aristotle's point: I have UVd long enough: my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf; And that which should...obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain... | |
| William Gilmore Simms - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 182 pages
...mournful plaint of Macbeth, when crowned with all he grasped at, illustrates fully his experience — "My way of life Is fallen into the sear, the yellow...obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have." Macbeth, my friends, was a person of very practical tendencies, with this advantage over the common... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1997 - 308 pages
...cheer me ever or disseat me now. I have lived long enough. My way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf, And that which should accompany old...age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, 25 I must not look to have; but in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath Which... | |
| Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...pillows will discharge their secrets. 10371 Macbeth I have lived long enough: my way of life Is fall'n 10372 Macbeth I have supped full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot... | |
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